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KALONA
When folks drive by Ramsey Creek Woodworks on Hwy 1 just north of Kalona, they don’t always know what exactly the business does. Is it a furniture store or something?
“We mainly do …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/22/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
Each nook and cranny of Kalona is chock-full of antique furniture that yearns for a time when it felt young, vibrant, alive. It takes a dedicated hand and a concentrated mind to craft and …
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By TJ Rhodes |
3/22/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
The Appliance Barn has a talent for transforming commercial properties. When they moved to their current location on the corner of B Avenue and Hwy 1 in Kalona in 2016, the space had been …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/15/24 12:00 PM
WELLMAN/KALONA
Odds are good that you’ve seen it around, that gorgeous magenta-pink Jeep cruising across Highway 22 or up Highway 1. You might be wondering who owns it, or perhaps where you can …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/15/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
Don Patterson talks to his cars.
“It’s not rational for a pastor to do, but yeah, I do,” he admits on an overcast day at the end of January.
He won’t, however, concede that …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/15/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
“I made it all the way around the world by the time I was 21. That was what I wanted to do,” Janet Haberman Long says as she sorts through boxes of dance costumes, …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/8/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
El Rincón is Kalona’s very own Mexican corner store, as ‘rincón’ is Spanish for ‘corner.’
The small store, located at 607 B. Ave., Kalona, …
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By TJ Rhodes |
2/28/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
For middle and high school students attending Pathway, Hillcrest Academy, and Mid-Prairie schools (including the home school), the time has come to get out their cameras and submit photos …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/21/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
“I started as a clerk when I was 15; it’s about time!” Olivia Kahler laughed when Ryan Schlabaugh recommended the city council approve her as the Kalona Public Library’s new …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/7/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
67,585 miles of Iowa’s public roads are gravel, making up 60% of the state’s road system. And cyclists love them.
Caleb Wilson is one of those cyclists. And because he lives in …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/7/24 08:00 AM
DES MOINES
This year’s annual Iowa Pork Congress, held Jan. 24-25, brought together pork producers, related businesses, and industry experts in Des Moines for two days of educational seminars, …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/31/24 08:00 AM
United Animal Health
Trent Torrance and Bob Altman traveled from Indianapolis to Des Moines to staff United Animal Health’s booth at the Iowa Pork Congress on Jan. 24-25. The Sheridan, …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/31/24 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
The negative three-degree temperature Monday night did not dissuade Republican caucus goers in Wellman from showing up at the Parkside Activities Center to express their presidential …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/17/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
A watermain leak on F Avenue has been repaired, two fire hydrants were recently replaced, and the DOT approved the city for a few speed feedback signs on Hwy 22. That’s interesting stuff, …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/10/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
A few feet of railroad track, just a piece of local history cut from the original rail line that created Kalona in 1879, was saved nearly a century later when all track left town, and then …
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By Mary Zielinski |
1/3/24 08:00 AM
KALONA We may live in small towns where the pace of life is more relaxed, but that doesn’t mean that nothing happens. We are always in motion, tearing down the old, building the new, and …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/3/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
Over the last 15 years or so, a new business concept has been developing: that of the play café. Neither coffee shop nor playground only, it manages to merge both ideas, bringing parents …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/13/23 08:00 AM
KALONA
The Monday night meeting of the Kalona City Council was filled with positive news for the city as it comes off a highly successful Christmas in Kalona event. Among the interesting …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/6/23 08:00 AM
“Shuck those peanuts out on our floor,” the 1975 advertisement entreated.
Peanut days at Yotty’s Hardware have been on hiatus these last few years due to COVID, but this year they are back. …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/6/23 08:00 AM
The Washington County Riverboat Foundation announced fall grant recipients Wednesday night at the Riverside Casino and Golf Resort. Over $2,000,000 in grants were distributed, with the second highest …
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By Cheryl Allen |
11/29/23 10:19 PM